wApua 0.06.4 released

abe+blog@deuxchevaux.org (Axel Beckert) — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 02:55:52 +0200

I today released version 0.06.4 of my WAP WML browser wApua and also uploaded that release to Debian Unstable.

It’s a bugfix release and the first upstream release since 2017.

It fixes the recognition of WAP WML pages with more recent DTD location URLs ending in .dtd instead of .xml (and some other small difference). No idea when these URLs changed, but I assume they have been changed to look more like the URLs of other DTDs. The old URLs of the DTD still work, but more recent WAP pages (yes, they do exist :-) seem to use the new DTD URLs, so there was a need to recognise them instead of throwing an annoying warning.

Thanks to Lian Begett for the bug report!

Starting a GNU Screen session via SSH's ~/.ssh/config

abe+blog@deuxchevaux.org (Axel Beckert) — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 05:50:40 +0100

This is more or less a followup to this blog posting of mine about AutoSSH and GNU Screen from nearly ten years ago — which by the way is still valid and still the way, I use SSH and GNU Screen.

Recently a friend asked me how to automatically start or reconnect to a GNU Screen session directly via OpenSSH’s configuration file. Here’s how to do it:

Add an entry to ~/.ssh/config similar to this one:

Host screen_on_server
    Hostname server.example.org
    RequestTTY yes
    RemoteCommand screen -RD

and then just call ssh screen_on_server and you’ll get connected to an existing screen session if present, otherwise you’ll a new new one.

Should work with tmux, too, but might need commandline different options.

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wApua 0.06.4 released

Starting a GNU Screen session via SSH's ~/.ssh/config